Statistics for U.S. History Multiple Choice #1

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech?	Martin Luther King Jr.	98%
What was the name of the spaceflight program that landed humans on the moon from 1969–1972?	Apollo	94%
What was John F. Kennedy's middle name?	Fitzgerald	86%
In what year did the U.S enter World War II?	1941	80%
Which war killed the most Americans?	Civil War	75%
Who was the first president to be impeached?	Andrew Johnson	71%
What country was blamed for the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898?	Spain	71%
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles in the American revolution. In what state did they take place?	Massachusetts	67%
Which of these cities has not hosted the Olympics?	Chicago	66%
Who was President at the time of the Louisiana Purchase?	Thomas Jefferson	65%
In the Constitution, each state gets a number of Representatives based on its population. Were slaves counted as part of the population?	Slaves were counted as 3/5ths	62%
What party did Presidents Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, and Harrison belong to?	Whig	57%
The Fortune 500 measures the largest companies by revenue. What company topped the Fortune 500 in 1970?	General Motors	55%
In exchange for the USSR taking its missiles out of Cuba, which of these countries did the U.S. remove missiles from?	Turkey	54%
Which of these structures was once the tallest in the world?	Washington Monument	39%